Author: Matt McBride Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781508634409 Category : Languages : en Pages : 202
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As a CIO, consultant, agile/scrum professor, and software and systems development expert, Matt McBride understands the frustration of today's technologists as they struggle to advance their careers and integrate the creative power they possess to deliver consistent business results. The sad truth is that the industry frequently delivers projects that fail to meet expectations, damaging careers in the process. There is no technical silver bullet that will allow the industry to achieve breakthrough results. What's needed is an entirely new approach. Leadership Patterns for Software and Technology Professionals uses patterns to simply state the problem and succinctly identify the outline of a solution. These leadership patterns are the basic building blocks for both successful software products and interactions with everyone affected by the project. They provide insights that will help you leverage leadership, influence, and relational skills to deliver impressive results. In short, this seminal work will help you advance your career and put you at the leading edge of the next big advance in the software and technology industry.
Author: Murray Cantor Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 228
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Software and project management consultant Murray Cantor discusses how to be a good manager and how to build a competitive software team. The text is intended to be accessible to managers with little software background as well as those with extensive experience. A sampling of topics includes software architecture, developing products, improving the efficiency of the organization, the Rational Unified Process, and team leadership. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1466626798 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 400
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"This book presents research from the perspective of the information technology professional and how they influence the modern organization"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Matthew Skelton Publisher: IT Revolution ISBN: 1942788827 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 210
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Effective software teams are essential for any organization to deliver value continuously and sustainably. But how do you build the best team organization for your specific goals, culture, and needs? Team Topologies is a practical, step-by-step, adaptive model for organizational design and team interaction based on four fundamental team types and three team interaction patterns. It is a model that treats teams as the fundamental means of delivery, where team structures and communication pathways are able to evolve with technological and organizational maturity. In Team Topologies, IT consultants Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais share secrets of successful team patterns and interactions to help readers choose and evolve the right team patterns for their organization, making sure to keep the software healthy and optimize value streams. Team Topologies is a major step forward in organizational design for software, presenting a well-defined way for teams to interact and interrelate that helps make the resulting software architecture clearer and more sustainable, turning inter-team problems into valuable signals for the self-steering organization.
Author: Muhammad Khalique Ahmad Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore ISBN: 1543767125 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 149
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In these competitive and turbulent times, project organisations face severe challenges. Despite the advancement of project management tools and techniques, the rate of project failure exceeds that of success. Regardless of calls for further empirical studies on the role of project leadership, researchers struggle to find the best leadership styles for project success. New digital transformation phenomena have forced organisations to offer more autonomy and decision-making authority to those at lower hierarchical levels. In this scenario, top management support plays a facilitator role. To the best of the researcher's knowledge, no past studies have examined these critical project success factors simultaneously in a project environment. Embedded in the theories of contingency, goal-setting, and social cognition, this study raised the hypothesis that project managers’ leadership styles impact project success via the mediation of goal clarity, empowerment, and self-leadership as well as the moderation of top management support. Data was collected by administering a cross-sectional survey to 289 project organisations in the IT sector. The results demonstrated that project managers' transactional leadership style does not impact project success because goal clarity has an insignificant association with project success. However, the transformational leadership style showed a positive impact on project success because empowerment significantly and positively relates to project success. The project manager's empowering leadership style was also found to positively influence project success through followers’ self-leadership. Additionally, top management support revealed a significant moderating role by strengthening the relationship between empowerment and project success. This study successfully fills theoretical gaps by introducing a novel moderated mediation model. The findings also offer useful insights to practitioners by revealing that project managers’ transformational leadership and empowering leadership are needed to enhance and encourage employee empowerment and self-leadership, and ultimately secure project success.
Author: Trond Arne Undheim Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 143571122X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 238
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Leadership From Below explains how the workplace is being changed by ideas from Asia, Scandinavia, and the socially-networked internet. All managers - but especially the growing group of de facto managers - will take away usable leadership skills.
Author: Laura Gail Lunsford Publisher: World Scientific ISBN: 9811262438 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 419
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Leadership is more than a being a leader.This textbook presents a holistic and readable overview of leadership. The dynamics of leadership involve leaders, followers and their environments — the organizational contexts within which leading and following take place. This triangle approach illustrates a more comprehensive view of leadership by focusing on all three dynamics.Students benefit from taking the evidence-based inventories to learn more about their leadership preferences. Six in-depth case studies add to the textbook and invite students to explore the application of leadership theory to practice. Each chapter ends with key terms, comprehension questions, and class activities.Chapters in this book draw on contemporary research and mini-cases to engage students in learning about themes of leadership focused on topics such as: ethics, effective communication, teams, mentoring, and toxic leadership.This book features integration of the case studies in the chapters along with updated literature and mini-cases. Chapter summaries, test banks, sample syllabi, and slide decks, designed by the authors, are a new addition for instructors.
Author: William A. Ihlenfeldt Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1456728806 Category : Education, Higher Languages : en Pages : 118
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What will higher education look like in 20 years? Will a bachelor's degree still be viable-or even valuable? How will we assess learning? Will it be competency based? Determined by the sum experience of individual achievement? Or measured by student peers? How will learning be delivered? In the classroom? Over the internet? Or through mobile devices untethered by time and place? And by whom? By professors dedicated to their disciplines, by volunteers driven by a passion to share, or by new kinds of learning communities, as yet unimagined? This much is certain: education is changing. But today, the higher education community is struggling with serious challenges: budget dollars are tighter than ever; our capacity to admit students who want an education has diminished sharply; and in the U.S., our standing as the premier global provider of advanced education is slipping. Imagining a new future for higher education will require vision-a creative capacity to see what might be possible for tomorrow's learners-and resolve-the ability to assess risk, forge new kinds of partnerships, and move confidently toward goals, even under difficult circumstances. SunGard Higher Education worked closely with Dr. Ihlenfeldt over the years as he worked tirelessly to shape a new future for Chippewa Valley Technical College. Today CVTC boasts a nationally recognized faculty, state-of-the art facilities and equipment, online and blended classrooms, and partnerships with area businesses that help to sustain a community. Visionary leadership informed by careful analysis can make a tremendous difference in people's lives. These are skills Bill shares with all of us in his book, Visionary Leadership. Its publication couldn't be timelier and SunGard Higher Education is proud to sponsor its publication.
Author: Leslie Jones Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000780732 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 149
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This book prepares educational leaders with the knowledge needed to critically evaluate, select, and use technological tools to be effective school leaders. Authors Jones and Kennedy explore the technology tools needed to support the full range of responsibilities of a school leader, including management and administration, personnel and evaluation, security and safety, instructional leadership, organizational culture and climate, external relationships, and action research. Each chapter unpacks advantages and pitfalls of various technological tools and includes case scenarios that contextualize these ideas for readers. Chapter content is also aligned with The Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL), the National Educational Leadership Preparation Standards (NELP), and the International Society of Technology Standard in Education (ISTE) standards. This timely and important book adds to the toolbox for educators preparing to become effective and cutting-edge school leaders.
Author: Arnold B. Bakker Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1136980881 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 218
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This book provides the most thorough view available on this new and intriguing dimension of workplace psychology, which is the basis of fulfilling, productive work. The book begins by defining work engagement, which has been described as ‘an opposite to burnout,’ following its development into a more complex concept with far reaching implications for work-life. The chapters discuss the sources of work engagement, emphasizing the importance of leadership, organizational structures, and human resource management as factors that may operate to either enhance or inhibit employee’s experience of work. The book considers the implications of work engagement for both the individual employee and the organization as a whole. To address readers’ practical questions, the book provides in-depth coverage of interventions that can enhance employees’ work engagement and improve management techniques. Based upon the most up-to-date research by the foremost experts in the world, this volume brings together the best knowledge available on work engagement, and will be of great use to academic researchers, upper level students of work and organizational psychology as well as management consultants.
Author: Matt McBride
Author: Murray Cantor
Author: Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo
Author: Matthew Skelton
Author: Muhammad Khalique Ahmad
Author: Trond Arne Undheim
Author: Laura Gail Lunsford
Author: William A. Ihlenfeldt
Author: Leslie Jones
Author: Arnold B. Bakker